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Leaving Cert '11/'12 Off-Topic 2
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Diamondsandrose wrote: »Lol at people who aren't allowed out early! Jesus for maths I'll be done in an hour, reeeally bad at it btw, not outstanding and efficient!
I was finished maths so quickly in the mocks, I probably could have done the paper again. Would suck not being allowed to leave.0 -
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Oh lads, I am so frightened of Paper 2.
I just don't know if I've put enough work in over the two years, and if Larkin or Plath don't come up I'll have to make such a waffley essay (that said...if either of them do come up it will be a waffley essay).
It's hard to stay positive when under so much stress. 0 -
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fizzyorange wrote: »Oh lads, I am so frightened of Paper 2. I just don't know if I've put enough work in over the two years, and if Larkin or Plath don't come up I'll have to make such a waffley essay (that said...if either of them do come up it will be a waffley essay).
It's hard to stay positive when under so much stress.
if deception,GV&V and Heaney come up I could get an A1..... anything else I'll be waffling my hole off.0 -
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Well, at least it's relevant and on topic.**** sickened. The question was "Write a short story inspired by the phrase" and then it just mentioned a "rock band howling for fame" in the phrase or something like that. I did write it in first person though, as a story.How many marks will I be likely to lose.
I work in third level, not second level, so I really haven't been keeping up to date that closely with the minutiae, and I can't and won't hazard a guess, because it would be unlikely to be even vaguely right.randylonghorn wrote: »How much, I honestly couldn't guess ... as I say, they've tweaked the approach to marking a fair bit in the interim.
There is absolutely no point worrying about it now, anyway ... concentrate on doing a really good Paper II instead.
Ah, here ... feck off expecting me to guess what marks ye're gonna get!!Randy for the short story 'in which a young character is eager to leave home', my first page and a bit was basically me wanting to leave home and then I did, but the other 3 pages were sorta off topic medical drama? It wasnt the best story itself, but do you think I lose big marks for the actual answering of the question part (purpose I think?)
Very generally, it depends ... if for example your story was about a young guy wanting to leave home, being warned that he was too young to take care of himself, leaving anyway, being mugged and ending up in A&E, waking up to see his mother crying over him, etc ... then there's a cohesion there.
If on the other extreme, he leaves home and suddenly we're into what really amounts to a second, separate short story about his life years later as a House-type consultant in America, you're probably going to set the examiner searching for the link / cohesion, and you might lose a few marks.
In general, though, you'll get away with pretty major flights of fancy provided you actually address the topic given and the story develops / has a cohesiveness about it.0 -
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Wish I studied more 
{trying to be positive} :pac: not working ahhh okay tea now ♥ 
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